Knight with Wand

Fenleytown.

This important town in Baldim County, which once accommodated 30,000 citizens and dominated the surrounding population of nearly 100,000, has now ushered in the dawn of recovery after becoming a dead city occupied by zombies.

As the central headquarters of the coalition, warriors from Orland, Dineshien, Cantadar, and even Serian are stationed here under the leadership of the commander.

The sun at noon, shining on the broken city walls, dispelled the gloomy chill left over from last night. Thousands of soldiers and civilians traveled on the desolate streets after the disaster, and the figures in armor shone in the sun.

The fire in the blacksmith shop was burning, and the blacksmiths with the army swung their hammers to repair the weapons and armor damaged in the battle.

Carriages carrying supplies kept driving in at the city gate. The civilians driving them shouted at the horses, which were loaded with food and supplies, and were busy shuttling between the camps.

Only when the smoke from cooking rises and the aroma of food fills the barracks, will this city, which has become a giant barracks, restrain the murderous atmosphere that can be seen everywhere.

In the former Finleytown municipal official residence, Azerien looked at the specific number of materials in his hand and reported to Leon the military supply situation in various places:

". Counting the part that Earl Langston reported not long ago that they found in the south, we now have a total of 51,740 dan of grain.

In terms of consumption, with Earl Sangetan who recently defected from Mamor County and more than 2,000 other nobles in the northern border of Kantadar, the coalition now needs to supply about 14,600 soldiers with food and grass.

After calculating the consumption of soldiers, livestock and war horses, our food and grass can still supply the entire army for more than a month."

He couldn't help but sighed: "The food crisis is temporarily alleviated , but I guess those Cantadar lords must have concealed a lot of information.

With such a large county and so many deaths among the people of Cantadar, they can now collect all the food reserves of the victims from all over the country. I would not be surprised if the amount of food is half more.

Especially the Earl of Langston.

He wanted you to lead the army south to help him fight back to Langston County. I guess the food he found in the Parotico area is far more than what you are talking about now. "

Azerien knew that although this land had suffered a series of wars and disasters since last year, Baldim County was a large county with a population of nearly 700,000.

As the core and rich land once controlled by the King of Cantadar, even after the disaster, it is still a lean camel that is bigger than a horse for the sparse population that is only about one-sixth of the original population.

He remembered his father's teachings that a cruel reality on this continent is that the famines that broke out in history all "ended naturally" after a certain number of deaths.

As far as Azerien's memory is concerned, in the historical records of the Kingdom of Serian, apart from the legendary disasters in ancient mythology, he has never known any war or famine that could more efficiently kill the population of the earth at a rate of hundreds of thousands than the undead disaster they are facing now.

"Let them go. I can't tear my face off and send the quartermaster to check the food reserves of Langston. As long as his troops obey the military orders and participate in our plan to march eastward, it will be fine."

Leon looked at the stationing of the coalition forces in various places on the map and waved to his general manager.

The coalition forces were originally a makeshift team, and it was not easy for the eastern lords who had their own thoughts to obey their orders at the moment.

It was normal for them to conceal their gains and leave enough food for their troops to advance and retreat.

His so-called commander was just a leader who was pushed out after he proved that he could defeat the undead. He was not the monarch that the Cantadar lords were truly loyal to. How could he be honest with him in everything? How could he have time to play political games with these nobles?

If one day, he could quell the disaster, he would just leave.

How these Eastern lords with their own ulterior motives would toss around in Baldim County was a headache for Count Runaf in the future.

Of course, the premise was that he and the Cantadar people here would still have a "future".

Leon's eyes moved to the river outlined on the map.

Not long ago, he took risks by boat and secretly led the elite to bypass the difficult-to-attack large towns and fortresses, and took down small strongholds by gradually dividing them, and then took down the large strongholds one by one with the help of Laura's reversal magic.

During the combat operation, he crossed the diversion channel of the river twice, went downstream in the dark cloud area, and arrived at the border of Cantadar.

At that time, looking at the lifeless Serian land under the dark sky on the other side, Leon could only sigh at the river.

Looking at the map, as long as he crossed the border river downstream and entered Serian's "Lumansor Territory", and then marched for just over a hundred kilometers, he could return to the original owner's hometown, Laura's former resting place.

It must be said that with such a close distance, he had the idea of ​​leading two thousand elite troops alone to go deep into the depths and gamble whether he could rush directly into Rolandar.

But even without Laura's dissuasion in his heart, Leon still gave up this crazy idea in an instant.

With only two thousand soldiers, he went deep into the origin of the disaster without knowing anything, facing an unknown number of undead, and the possible existence of a big enemy behind the scenes.

It is indeed no different from throwing himself into a trap, not to mention this crazy gamble with a 100% chance of death, and whether there is a slight chance of success.

Even if the warriors around him created a one in a billion miracle and successfully escorted him and Laura to the Rolandar Temple, no one would survive in the end.

This almost non-existent success rate and the disproportionate huge sacrifice were unbearable for Leon.

Whether it was his companions, comrades-in-arms, or his own life, they could not be wasted so recklessly.

"How is the progress of Count Runaf's recruitment?" Leon looked up and asked Azerien.

"The Baldim family has recruited 6,000 militiamen from the people and is training on the north bank."

Leon nodded. He did not expect the 6,000 militiamen to have much combat effectiveness.

As long as these militiamen can be stationed in various strongholds to assist in defending the city and patrolling the roads, so that most of the elites of various princes can be freed up to assemble and go on the expedition, it will be enough.

After taking over many towns and fortresses on the south bank, the further east they go, the more difficult it will be. The undead army can go without food, but the living soldiers must eat every day to fight, and the supply routes for food and military supplies must be safe.

Now they say that they have recaptured half of Baldim County, and on the north bank they are publicly executing captured ghouls to eliminate the fear of civilians, while counterattacking the people with propaganda to boost public morale.

However, in reality, the coalition forces are stretched to their limits with more than 10,000 troops, which can only guarantee control of several important towns, fortresses and main roads in various parts of the south bank.

After Laura reversed the altar, there are still a large number of ghoul armies that have not been eliminated wandering around in the mountains and countryside on this land that has seen the light of day again.

Every night, there are still countless resentful evil ghosts making trouble in the wilderness.

In recent days, there have been unexpected counterattacks of the undead tide in various places. Fortunately, with Corvis and a lion scorpion knight from Kantadar passing military information back and forth, the coalition forces were able to dispatch troops in time to extinguish the invading group of corpse ghosts.

Although the undead individuals wandering in the wild are no longer as ferocious and tough as those in the underworld, they are still very threatening to ordinary civilians, and the main force of the coalition forces cannot always focus on defending the city and escorting the supply team.

At present, the time is still short, and the undead army has not yet reacted to this strange army.

Taking advantage of this time difference, the only way is to march eastward as soon as possible to establish a defense line as close to Rolandar as possible, so that he can find a way to summon more troops to fight back to the Holy Land City.

Whether in terms of food consumption and morale, the living army and the sleepless sea of ​​undead corpses are engaged in a protracted war, which is a dead end.

Time cannot be delayed. But there is no rush. The continuous battles have caused more than 2,000 casualties in the coalition. The soldiers are now physically and mentally exhausted. Even if they have won consecutive battles and their morale is high, they still need to rest.

Leon tapped the location of the Kilmerton Pass with his finger, and he could only put his anxiety aside for the time being.

He looked to the north of Baldim County and the Mamor County in the northern border of Cantadar.

The Earl of Sangetan, who came to Baldim County not long ago, saw that the escape route to the south was blocked by the undead, so he temporarily joined the coalition and brought the bad news that the undead corpse tide swallowed Mamor County.

However, Leon learned from him that the tens of thousands of troops summoned by Redwin III had already fought with the undead in the western occupied area of ​​Mamor.

The Orland army officially began to fight the undead, which made Leon feel a little relieved. At least he was not fighting alone.

With the blueprint of the Holy Lamp for the Soul Guardian that he contributed, I wonder how many spellcasters Ledwin III can summon from the north to help, how many Holy Lamp can be made, and whether he can build a large soul-fixing facility in the border fortress.

However, there are a large number of friendly troops in the north, but there is no good news in the south.

Thinking of the dead silence he saw when he and Corvis took the Hippogriff to the south for reconnaissance, Leon felt a headache.

If the Duke of Aberle in Cantadar had not provoked a civil war before the Undead marched, Leon would have accepted it even if he had to hold his nose and join forces with the Eastern Expedition Army under his command that invaded Serian to fight against the Undead Scourge in order to resolve the main contradiction.

However, for the sake of power, the army of the living had a wave of internal consumption before facing the army of the dead.

Leon didn't know whether the rebels in the south of Cantadar, who had experienced the defeat of Usato, could still stop this endless sea of ​​corpses.

Putting aside his worries about the south, he leaned back in his chair and thought about how to continue marching eastward after the two thousand reinforcements from the Lord arrived and he finished resting the coalition.

"My Lord." The guard knight Zabron knocked on the door and reported: "Lady Olivia is back."

When Leon heard this, he immediately got up and walked out of the room with Azerien to greet her outside the official residence.

In the yard, the knight girl in silver armor and gray robe turned off the saddle, handed the reins to Treya to lead to the stable, and walked towards Leon with a clang of armor.

"Are there any soldiers injured?" Leon asked.

As the supreme commander, the change of position made him try his best to hand over some occasional enemy situations in the control area to his soldiers to investigate and pacify.

Reality is not a game, and there is no need for the general to "clear the toilet" or "save the kidnapped wife" everywhere.

Whether it was Olivia, Lohak, Lord Irem, Baron Balfe, Greenthorne and other knights around him, these knights were all excellent generals who could be entrusted with important tasks. Except for the big battle, not all battles required him to do it personally.

"Don't worry, we easily wiped out the group of zombies wandering in the valley. The 500 cavalrymen I led out all returned safely without any casualties." Olivia held the hilt of the sword with one hand to support her waist, with a proud expression.

After saying that, she couldn't help but move closer, her eyes filled with golden magic seemed to be begging for praise.

There was no one here except Azerien. Leon raised his hand to touch the girl's shining golden hair, and Olivia narrowed her eyes in satisfaction when she felt the intimate contact for the first time in a long time.

"As expected of Orland"

Before Leon finished speaking, Olivia shook her head and interrupted with dissatisfaction: "Don't call that weird nickname"

The Lioness of Orland.

No mistake, one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar, take a look!

Leon was amused by the girl's reaction. He thought the name was impressive. Fortunately, the girl's emblem was a lion, at least she was not called the tigress of Orland. There were many tigers in the mountains and forests in the south.

This was the name given to the girl by the Kantadar knights in the coalition.

Female knights were rarer than rare animals, not to mention a female knight with extraordinary martial arts at such a young age.

Any knight or soldier of Kantadar who has seen the little lion fight can never forget the violent scene of the girl wielding a spear and a sharp sword, tearing the undead into pieces like a beast.

The girl alone crushed the undead on the battlefield, and her efficiency exceeded that of dozens of knights.

If other people were riding and slashing on the battlefield, then Olivia was simply unparalleled in Leon's eyes.

"I'll go to the barracks to see the others."

Azerien made sure that his companions were safe and sound, and then left the space for the two.

"I'll be there later."

Leon nodded, turned around and pulled Olivia back to the temporary residence in the official residence.

Asking about the battle process and helping the girl take off her armor, the two chatted briefly, and Treya quickly prepared hot water for bathing.

Leon then stood up and said goodbye, intending to go to the Avalon camp to visit the soldiers who had returned.

As soon as he walked to the door, he was suddenly caught up by the girl and grabbed his wrist.

"?" Leon turned around and looked at the girl.

"." Olivia pulled him, blushing.

She listened attentively, and pursed her lips when Treya in the corridor outside gradually walked away.

The gold in her eyes faded back to clear green because of the shyness in her heart.

"Just treat it as a reward for military exploits, okay? We haven't been together for a long time. Now the army is resting. Can you stay here tonight?"

Olivia lowered her head, and her voice became smaller and smaller.

The girl understood the other party's consideration of keeping a distance from her in the army.

But during this period of marching, although the lover was close at hand, he had to suppress the desire to get closer all day long and pay attention to the contact with each other, which was really a bit tormenting.

"I want to fall asleep leaning on you, just for one night. Okay."

Hearing this request, Leon raised his eyebrows slightly.

Since the expedition, considering that Olivia was one of the only two girls in the army, he always arranged for the girl and her attendant Treya to rest in separate tents.

As the leader and the object of the soldiers' attention, Leon did not want to take advantage of his and Olivia's status to be too intimate with the girl in public.

After all, the soldiers were away from their wives and put their heads on their waists when they went to war. How could he be accompanied by his lover because Olivia was a powerful warrior?

So far, he has always treated the girl as a comrade-in-arms in front of everyone and maintained his behavior so as not to disturb the morale of his soldiers because of personal feelings.

However.

At present, the army is stationed in various houses in the city of Fenleytown, and he and Olivia have many private opportunities away from the public's eyes.

Think about it carefully.

Only consider the morale of the soldiers under his command.

As a commander, it is also a dereliction of duty to fail to take care of the morale of the strongest generals around him.

Shamelessly finding a reasonable excuse for himself, Leon laughed in his heart.

"Since Sir Olivia has made many military achievements, this Marshal has to bear the grievance and stay overnight in the camp to feed the lion." Leon joked with his hands spread out.

Olivia's heart was filled with joy, but looking at the other's smirking face, she couldn't help but reach out and pinch it.

"Don't think too much, we just lean on each other to fall asleep, don't make trouble!"

"Ah?" Leon looked at her serious instructions and was immediately disappointed: "Really. Just sleeping?"

Olivia was choked, and rolled her eyes at the bad guy in annoyance, and raised her hand to nod her head.

Leon hissed, and then he remembered that he still had Laura with him.

". It's okay, don't worry about me~ You can do whatever you want."

The inexplicable voice of the wizard lady sounded faintly in his heart.

She didn't need to speak at first, but she deliberately interrupted for some reason.

Leon coughed awkwardly.

How could he not care? He didn't have an exhibitionist fetish. It seemed that he could only hug Olivia to help her sleep tonight.

Nothing happened that night.

In any case, even if he just slept in the arms of his lover, Leon felt that his tense heartstrings were much relaxed the next day, and the accumulated mental pressure seemed to be swept away.

Olivia also looked much more excited.

Just as he replenished his mental state, a surprise followed.

After receiving a report from the north shore, the second batch of reinforcements from the Thorn Flower Family finally arrived in Baldim County.

And it turned out that it was not just the two thousand people led by Earl Elliver himself.

The number of reinforcements was twice as much as expected! A full four thousand.

However, Leon was stunned when he saw the unexpected name in the letter.

Sea Eagle Knights.

Ines?